Genetic dissection of a behavioral quantitative trait locus shows that Rgs2 modulates anxiety in mice

Nature Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1197-1202

  Yalcin, Binnaz ^a   Willis Owen, Saffron A G ^a   Fullerton, Jan ^a   Meesaq, Anjela ^a   Deacon, Robert M ^b   Rawlins, J Nicholas P ^b   Copley, Richard R ^a   Morris, Andrew P ^a   Flint, Jonathan ^a   Mott, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; RGS2 PROTEIN; RGS PROTEIN; RGS2 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 1; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; INBRED STRAIN; NONHUMAN; OUTBRED STRAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; TECHNIQUE; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME MAP; EVALUATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOSAICISM; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, OUTBRED STRAINS; ANXIETY; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOSAICISM; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RGS PROTEINS;

EID: 11844254278     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1450     Document Type: Article

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